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on. the airport and i decide to buy theo p.-a six years ago this is where the story began. on the tarmac i see white cargo planes being unloaded food aid coming into the country. and at the same time food being exported out. why is a famine struck country receiving food aid exporting food to the rich world to us. it didn't make sense. returning to find out more i couldn't imagine that it was the beginning of the much bigger story.

i. guess. the big. play. wherever i go in the city everything seems to be about developments hunger and poverty are to be eradicated by any means necessary. for the field be in government the solution is to invite foreign investors. to be ok but it would be

a little so i think you will get it but if you get this all the laid. yes there are many lessons in how we think that the lameness through about it will be investment and that some are not yet and yes again known as that focus on bite output chop that thought it was a gimmick if you took any sort of millions you know you can about that you know it's just a commodity to be investment that you can reach or to go on. the call from the government is hard in the luxury hotels of the city i meet international business people and venturers looking for opportunities the hot topic on everyone's lips is farmland what they call the new green gold. good you see. our teeth.

when i came here i first went to investment office they said that they were very keen to have foreign investment here to stimulate business and also to improve the foreign exchange ballots. it's a commercial operation i could see that it was suitable for what i wanted to do here great rainfall. good soils and your really interesting situation it's just good to give it a go. investors bringing money to a poor country might be good but what happens to the local farmers when the investors arrive. knowing nothing about the country i'm pretty lost. but i get to know an environmental journalist dealing with the land issues and see

no reason for this is a big question but when i put on the central park it means damage on the road ecological system of the park and it's never reported on the media those things that for us to miss i think it is another being discussed and because you can't cover that for us to buy any museums maybe for the next five hundred years. whatever there is for thailand in ethiopia purify and nunn do for us there's. that isn't the mines i have heard a lot of reports from western region. now i want to see it was my own eyes what exactly is going on. our gala laus me to join him on his investigative trip to the gun bella region far away in western new york.

after two days of driving we finally reached umbrella for ages this region has been an isolated corner v.o.p. or. somehow it reminds of forgotten world still untouched by modern civilisation but now things are changing.

london one could conceive a child going to get a language is a much uglier child and cylinder seem to fit their mothers' level of knowledge because it is a much more limited big. is than document at the got to look in much. of the lazy what is a myth what is emma shouted and what is the met them at a good enough to give me a click yes if you look at a dog. one of the theater with up watch a video or so the card house that got you slipped while it was an evocative going to ask of the beginning and ask of the could begin to look at the article and to be added. thank you she let you when you how can you print anything p.-i thing at all that forty. and living. in

there. i sat down with a tiny little heat sink into which in which at the top i some heat is in my limb on the day by left coming. in the on a bit of living in the cellars here. he'll stand over thirty. in the second learning and then many other than down the aisle then i think i'll continue in the canonical they must meet my sollie. leaving the farmer we follow the new road. we drive deeper into the heart of gum bella and reach ethiopia's largest national park. the park covers over five thousand square kilometers stretching all the way to south sudan and is the habitat

of many endangered species this enormous area is also home to indigenous people living off of small farming fishing and hunting the dream means to its fondest. selves with. the men in this park the second to be set on getting park in there i think there now. this is a dumbbell or region. there is a national park in the middle here. that is full of many species why let him out. and there is a project that. investors coming to come bail out to be given a lot so i'll do what he did now not to do that some demarcation quickly as soon as

possible so that they then vest as cannot be looked at it in the center of the park so this is what we are doing but who knows as the project come from the federal. i were maybe we could we don't know but the seed we are trying our best. this is where we have now to now. the park official omar is worried that his small staff can't control the vast area of the park. a few hours later we discover that his concerns appear to be justified. and.

net. net. huge. at a junction there is a road sign. a company named saudi star. what

we saw was very disturbing. i wondered why the saudis to company he's after in that case. it's so out expanding into the national park. so i would seriously damage the wider knife and the less arsenal could be. doing. the thinking and. cutting and cutting and. cutting and. something else something. that's the kind.

of thing. that. in the regional capital argyle goes out alone to find information about the government's plans for the national park and the saudis start companies. the local security police find out that our guy was asking around and they arrest him. the entire night our guy was interrogated at the police headquarters. early in the morning he is released and ordered to leave dumbbell immediately he is told if you care about your security don't ever come back. there were opinion over. the plan forty. years later with ok very

good many dear children most of them are in the future. to get healthy. soon and do whatever. i feel kind of feel in most places particularly in recklessness they cannot understand you are a journalist they cannot understand you have a right to put it says the government policies they cannot understand that is your job and always there trying to create a sense of fear and. a serious warning and. in that condition you feel that you went into in the jail you might be attacked by someone ok then run

away from the place. our guy was lucky to make it out of gum bella but for him this story is too important to drop. the gun beloved i can but i'm going to cut that. desire cover up the particle night. given a shot. muslim religion williams look at no official you want to have a look at my huge load of you know in your. book i know that china. nazi. rule.

during the beef i mean into eighty's about four hundred thousand people died and almost every family dose the loved ones. but the hunger has not disappeared but a million or so people are still dependent on food aid for their survival. now in verses from all over the world that are coming years to get to farmland. if at the same time i had a culture a land is taken away from our farmers and crops exported they maybe even more hunger. before hardly any international investors cared about farmland in africa so why are they so interested now.

searching for answers i go to the global financial centers in new york the largest conference for agricultural investors is held. i let myself in through the back door. and once you get it there so not so famous american banker why do you rob banks because that's where the money is so he said and in some ways that's why people invest negative because now there's money in the u.s. you can make profit. it's an agriculture where you probably couldn't ten twenty years ago. but things changed around the middle of the two thousand when we had a big spike in food prices. and the reasons why the president i could see his on the demand side we have more population going to nine billion a lot of need to man command of a ship out of china and on the supply side you know there are questions about how

much for thailand is available in parts of the world in particular the heavily populated parts of east asia europe and other areas. and what's changed in from two thousand and eight is that we seem institutional bester as we mentioned funds insurance companies private equity funds types for now starting to look at agriculture as as a as a real asset something tangible which is you could sort of value a good place to invest money in the same way say looking for out from russia real estate or ira forestry. as it turns out the rush for the green gold is reaching every corner of the planet international investors will soon control over fifty five million hectares of farmland an area larger than the size of germany most affected are the poorest

countries such as ethiopia. saudis star has big plans for them bella. the saudi arabian companies preparing to farm an enormous area. and they've already come far. they've come really far. to get on with the story we must return to the farm. with the suits shut. if.

the owner billionaire alla moody has a longstanding interest in ethiopia but investigating land investments in ethiopia is dangerous. with his arrest and dumbbell a fresh in his mind argyle has fears about the government. but as a foreigner making you feel what i could cultural development i could contact the company. ladyship building it this was it. so the story. before we start you know existing because there are some confidentiality. which may not be disclosed to some interviews they have made quiet fish from the ship at all . and so yes. this is you know one thousand. and this one like this it is two thousand back that they are no sanction this city

thousand and eight that this one is four thousand that make that sort of ten thousand that so of course all of the clearly got to be think of this here almost twelve of it so this is it is. there and the same time. now and on a structure that was in the six months of this advice a million five would you find out i was. just. expired and the bottom was a maximum of. twelve indicators the government has to provide us some more on this or that we can expand these five and. we are lucky the manager grants permission to visit the farm again barely.

arriving at the farm area we risk ordered by the company security sort of missed. me. you know saudi started to. catch up to the governments to be listening. to compass . and try and do probable cause the company provides services like food service clinic service for a few working here we have

a football field people do football kates like they are in near future or so again we'll have a swimming pool like that so this is a very nice place where people living freely not scared that security is good then the health care good and that living standard is very good in the europa standard all the camps i think teens there are designed to do a jump by to just come and he dropped. so what was here before you started. it was simply. when i say four it's not like it's one of. but you see this fiercely populated oh that was

closed and if you noticed production. didn't get the brown race but i was it moved and it always gets white race and it's going out of the polished but this one is only one of the. last week isn't it is very expensive and you will export police money yes. for the night we were given a guest room at the farm compound but we don't sleep very well the idea that a famine struck country should export rice is just too strange. then

we came this all along. and team once the project is completed and. you find something not only in one hundred tons but also there are something for the mankind that something gives you comfort. there there are not issues which we find being breached. the displacement of the people. taking place. there's not much. people living most of the villages did inside yes. the people living in second but there. must have been affected and in what some.

people affected the. saudi stars operating on the eagle permits awarded by the government to enable this development the government is a victim the local on your own people from the land. or indigenous people who have been living in the area for hundreds of years. we need to find out what happened to them i know. i know. that. the most difficult part of my job is to break through to one of sides. most people are afraid of the government must be free to have

a problem. and say the fear is just for. whatever you cause or is any top of mind and spice. just pick up against the land investments you'll be granted us on to development and on indefinitely. finally our goal manages to find people willing to talk to us just. them a bit. funky which he did you took a model what. do you want to kick it why no callignee. want to know what it.

would be done. only down what. would. you do your government. but you. were not a woman. what a turn oh. i want to become one of. with a you. whatever you are down here. and.

nobody can come but in my mind in my area and here paul. who could walk. all over me york with a pipe and will you bump into me i gotta marking the band with them then i can make a grown man variable a new to me to have a at the core chick be more difficult to be very careful i want to come by whom betty. meet. all over the o.p.'s small farmers are being forced off their land and moved to new

villages one and a half million people are about to be evicted. the government calls the forced relocation villages ational creating new villages the official reason is that the locals can only benefit from development programs that provide people with clean water health care school and food aid if they live in the villages. the major development program in the area is a program called p.b.s. . right beside the saudi star farm we find one of those new villages the only one who dares to speak with us is a local government official. they should go but in that and only due to my model and cannot industry i could only go one to festival many zoltan that article a minority and a bull donal to come to your market that i am doing but then you know where. the

cutting if you want to and i'm bored as i don't i'm not a bloody rechelle in that. so with you i'm willing if we could ever get ready or does it start i just at the end return i don't know. all the lies ahead of them and. in the new villages we find empty bags on the ground. the local farmers who've lost their land now need food aid to survive. seems hard to believe that these relocations are about helping people. in a. very good. going m. wanted to give then women dark and she'll come and then come on get on good you and

then come and go boom but you and i am poor come on get on that do you when will the want of you. know. i didn't get the above only get to go to bali get you down don't need to deal with it you bought the who don't need you but a young male would be out there but i think that will. ruin a veteran or when you can walk on by to come by eleven anti-tobacco. going on here when i'm going to a local malcolm he. could get convicted of the death of bernard i want to and it didn't happen. but we're going to attempt it be going to take over again more going more do more with time to time look i know where lorne a good idea to have when i get home. but my no do all. that but we're not going to going to put the wall there during the only year at only

good bloke a man or woman one of them i have one year where. the development program p.b.s. protection of basic services is meant to help the poorest. the intention is great but it appears as if the thiel be in government and gum bella is exploiting the development program to clear land for the international. the investors. the p.b.s. program is funded by the us the european union and the world bank. the world bank is the world's largest development bank and is financed by tax money. the mission of the bank is to end extreme poverty and build prosperity. in ethiopia

the world bank has put over two billion dollars into the p.b.s. program. the world bank is engaged in many countries that have institutional weaknesses that have ethnic tensions that have big development challenges and that's why we're there ultimately. i think development often involves trade offs and many development aspects to come with costs. people should not be disadvantaged by by a project whether they own the land all they don't own. the one thing is to make sure that those projects are television quality way without jeopardizing the environment so. making sure that we protect people and in fact benefit society at large. without necessarily creating new reserves.

in ethiopia three million people already depend on food aid to survive now the development program seems to be creating even more hunger how can the small farmers survive when they've lost their land more food aid. but. there were you. refer to him that are. on an up and on. top of that and.

now i have a generator shuttle crew are going to. argo gone his ground breaking story now the challenge is to find an editor who dares to publish. hundreds of land investors flood into the field. but are they all the same. to find out i traveled to another corner of this beautiful and fertile country. for. so. this one looked on.

both of them. it was threaded. so then i went and yeah. but the green is good you know big a good yeah. yeah. yeah but i don't think. it. really. freed. point of view it's very dangerous trying. to spend time looking at the growth side of the road. the land that we took care of initially had been used twenty years before

by the state farm system but they had abandoned it because they said it's too dry to grow crops on so we were the first people to plow in that area. if i can just point out across the way. there is a neighbor of ours here he's also a local person. he has no infrastructure and much no machinery but what he does do is floor his crop very closely and he does everything at the right time and you see he's also got a very good crop now i'd like to just show you this call just here. the person the farmer who has this is somebody who lives here not just over not following their

crop closely they're what we call an investor they come perhaps once a year to look at their crops now the result of that is that we have a lot of things we need this is called it's a grass weed it's called asking dabo literally means no bread what we need is more of the mentality of the pharma rather than they invest people who are committed to growing crops following their crops having that competitive instinct wanting to find something which increases the production. yeah. that's one of the things they're very keen on these people who i think export crops in order to increase for an exchange now we haven't gone down that route i mean when we do safe imports. which vary tuesday.

yeah. ok and look be there ready now and there are those almost ready so a few can come on wednesday. tuesday night you know it's good and also. good good i think that's very nice no problem with that and that's good million issue.

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we were. you know we will now be presented americans in some place and i was really experienced hardship to listen. i was issued when i arrived here i slept with six people in a room. it was hard i was for it. i haven't got white hair. learning the gym i learned a lot this leads me and could help push me to entrap let's say you want to know their story minds are fighting and reliable information for margaret.

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